March 8, 2008

ADDED JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT (on the verge of springing ahead to 1 a.m.): This seems to be an especially popular sunset, so let me fill in the sequence. First, I noticed the break in the clouds, and I thought this looked subtly pretty and possibly a sign that things would shape up especially well this evening, so I got out the camera:

This is next. It's taken before the 2 pictures in the original post, and it's zooming in much closer to the Statue of Liberty (from my terrace in Brooklyn):

And this is the last one. It's zoomed in, but the clouds were already closing up:

It wasn't long after this that a storm rolled in, and that storm is still howling out there now.

With a little photoshop, it could serve well as the ending of a presidential ad. Otherwise, the sunglow adds an etherial feel to Lady Liberty. If you keep taking pictures like this, you may need to quit your day job.